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Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) (Paperback)
by Leo Tolstoy
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Reading The Brothers Karamazov: Even a Toddler Knows a Funny Name When He Hears One 13
My son has a long way to go until he’s reading The Brothers Karamazov, but hopefully not so long that he forgets about Stinking Lizaveta before he gets there. I hope I’ll be near at hand, or only a phone call away, when he discovers that the funny name we used to whisper to each other is actually a very sad character in a great novel, and that the line between life and art is arbitrary, if it exists at all.
The Chameleon Machine 8
Digital readers and paper books have little in common. But both objects have considerable merit, and this is why I think we should combine the two.
The Great Divide: Writing Across Gender 20
Do we ever really “forget” the author? Does she ever truly recede when we are reading gender-crossing works? Do we necessarily want her to?
A Year In Reading: Jenny Davidson 11
Fifteen things about my year in reading.
A Year in Reading: Lionel Shriver 2
To get me through a 550-page collection, the stories must be very good indeed. These are.
When I'm in the Mood for Fiction 12
Fiction can be depressing, of course, but there's something intrinsically optimistic about the process by which tragedy and frailty are turned into art.
Beauty, Youth, and Their Discontents 1
Fictional characters enjoy exaggerated attributes, but few have the sort of beauty that marks Julien Sorel, where the beauty is not only essential to his character, elevating his soul, but outside of it, dictating his destiny. If beauty can be distilled from its specific fictional forms, does it have a cogent power of its own in literature?
The Writer Career Arc, or Why We Love the Susan Boyle Story 14
The idea is that the reader is interested in a rags-to-riches story, as if literary success were akin to winning the lottery, or better yet, being struck by lightning.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Recommended Reading for Transient Lives 5
By way of starting a conversation about the ideal marriage of text and transportation, we've asked our contributors and readers to make reading recommendations for Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.
Selections from a Winter Reading War and Peace 9
Reading War and Peace, there is the sense of beginning one of the great experiences one might have in a lifetime. It is an enervating feeling, but also a melancholy one.
The Millions Interview: Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky 17
There is at least as much intuition as intention in the process. A good translator has to follow that process far more consciously than the writer and yet come as close as possible in the new language to the instinctive "rightness" of the original. The greater the writer, the closer you want to come. That is both the challenge and the joy of it.
Ask a Book Question: #74 (Just One Book) 32
If you could read just one novel, what would it be?